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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 29, NWS Hastings, NE

May 29, 2000Webster County, Nebraska

NWS Hastings, NE issued this severe thunderstorm warning at May 29, 2000, 11:10 PM CDT for Webster County, Nebraska. It was in force for 50 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
May 29, 2000, 11:10 PM CDT (04:10 UTC)
Expired
May 30, 2000, 12:00 AM CDT
In force
50 min
Issued by
NWS Hastings, NE
Area
Whole counties

County Webster County, NE

The radar

The Grand Island radar (KUEX), 17 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 04:09 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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The watch it was issued in

The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
May 29, 9:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WatchSPC5 hr

The nearest sounding before it

N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE (KLBF), launched 00:00Z, 4.2 hours before the alert went out and 206 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2000-05-30Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 1075 joules per kilogram.LCLLFCEL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km15 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, N. Platte/Lee Bi, NE at 00:00Z on 2000-05-30The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity 56 square meters per square second.19395878Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
1075 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
-144 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL
3109 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
56 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
56 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
289 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
10.0

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The text

As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.

000 
WUUS53 KGID 300411
SVRGRI
NEC181-300500-

BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1110 PM CDT MON MAY 29 2000

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN HASTINGS HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR...
  WEBSTER COUNTY IN SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA

* UNTIL MDINIGHT CDT

* AT 1109 PM CDT...DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED THE LEADING EDGE OF 80 MPH
  WINDS 15 MILES SOUTH OF HASTINGS NEAR BLUE HILL...MOVING SOUTHEAST
  AT 50 MPH.

SOME LOCATIONS NEAR THE PATH OF THIS LINE OF STORMS INCLUDE...

  RED CLOUD
  GUIDE ROCK

PEOPLE IN WEBSTER COUNTY SHOULD SEEK SHELTER IN A STURDY STRUCTURE
AND STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS.

DAMAGING THUNDERSTO-RMS WINDS IN EXCESS OF 80 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. THIS
IS AN EXTREMELY DANGEROUS SITUATION. TAKE SHELTER IN YOUR BASEMENT OR
IN AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST FLOOR.

$$

KD
NNNN

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Hastings, NE wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at May 29, 3:10 PM CDT, 8 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 29, 3:10 PM CDT, 8 hours before
SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA/NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
310 PM CDT MON MAY 29 2000

CHC OF TSRA RMNS THE QN OF THE FP WITH UPR JET OVR THE NRN PLNS/H5
HIGH OVR NM/SFC FRONT SAGGING TO NR THE SD/NEB BRDR. SHRTWV MOVG ACRS
CO THIS AFTN ALSO EXPECTED TO FIRE SOME TSRA OVR HIGH PLNS AREAS
BEING HEATED TO NR CONVECTIVE TEMPS.

PRIMARY PCPN THREAT EXPECTED TO BE OVR SD/NRN NEB WHERE MID LVL TEMPS
ARE COOLER AND IN 850 MSTR CNVRGNC AREA ALNG THE FRONT.  GENLY...THE
MDLS AGGRESSIVELY SEND FRONT THRU THE NEB CWA ON TUE MRNG...THEN
HANG IT UP FOR FURTHER FOCUS OF TSRA THE REST OF THE FP.  MDLS ALSO
CONT THE AGGRESSIVE ADVCTN OF H7 TEMPS FM YSTRDAYS RUNS...WHICH ALNG
WITH THE EARLY MRNG LAPS...WERE 2-3 DEGS TOO WARM...ALLOWING JUST
ENOUGH POSITIVE AREA FOR LAST NGTS HIGH PLNS CONVECTION TO WEAKLY
PERSIST INTO PARTS OF CWA.  MDL SOUNDINGS...EVEN AFTR SHAVING MID
LVL TEMPS A COUPLE OF DEGREES...SHOW TOO MUCH CIN FOR FOR TSRA
ACTIVITY OVR ALL OF BUT NRN CWA TNGT...FOR SFC BASED AND ELEVATED
LIFT.  GOES SOUNDINGS SHOW CAP HAS STRENGTHENED OVR KS THIS AFTN AND
CLDS COMING OFF THE MTNS LK FLAT...SO WL DROP SLGT CHC FM SRN CWA...
PERSIST CHC ELSEWHERE.

FRONT PROGRESS OBVIOUSLY CRITICAL FOR TUE TEMP PROG AND FOR MSTR
FOCUS COME TUE NGT.  10 DEG DIFFERENCE IN MOS GUIDANCE ILLUSTRATES
MDL ARGUMENT.  AM NOT WILD ABOUT ETA/AVN FRONTAL PROGRESS ALTHOUGH
HEALTHY MCS ACRS NRN NEB COULD CERTAINLY SEND IT THROUGH.  LLVL CLDS
MAY PERSIST FOR A WHILE UNDR THE INVERSION...BUT WL GIVE CURRENT TEMP
PROG AN UPWARD BUMP WITH WARM FRONT REPOSITIONING/LONG DAY TO
PARTIALLY MIX OUT STILL-WARM LLVL SOUNDING.

WL MAINTAIN NOCTURNAL TSRA PATTERN INTO THE EFP AS TSRA ACTIVITY WL
CONT ALNG SWD SINKING BAROCLINIC BOUNDARY.

.GID...NONE.

09

In the hours before

Special weather statement, May 29, 9:43 PM CDT, 1 hour 27 minutes before
NEZ039>041-046>049-060>064-072>077-082>087-300430-

SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
943 PM CDT MON MAY 29 2000

...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA
UNTIL 3 AM...

SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FOR A GOOD PORTION OF TONIGHT
ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA.  DAMAGING WINDS ARE THE MAIN THREAT
FROM THESE THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH MIDNIGHT.  LARGE HAIL WILL BECOME A
THREAT TO ACCOMPANY THE WINDS AS STORMS MOVE EAST OF HIGHWAY 281
LATER TONIGHT.

THIS WATCH REPLACES THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH WHICH WAS IN
EFFECT EARLIER FOR VALLEY AND GREELEY COUNTIES AND A LARGE PART OF
NORTHERN NEBRASKA.

DROZD
Local storm report, May 29, 10:21 PM CDT, 49 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HASTINGS NE
1021 PM CDT MON MAY 29 2000

TIME(CDT)  .....CITY LOCATION..... STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

0842 PM    GOTHENBURG                NE    WIND DAMAGE
05/29/00   DAWSON                          12 INCH TREE LIMBS DOWN

0900 PM    GOTHENBURG                NE    WIND DAMAGE
05/29/00   DAWSON                          TREES SNAPPED

0930 PM    LEXINGTON ARPT            NE    68 MPH TSTM GUST
05/29/00   DAWSON

0937 PM    LEXINGTON                 NE    WIND DAMAGE
05/29/00   DAWSON                          TREE LIMBS BLOWN INTO
                                           TRAILER

0940 PM    OVERTON                   NE    WIND DAMAGE
05/29/00   DAWSON                          TREE DAMAGE

0944 PM    COZAD                     NE    WIND DAMAGE
05/29/00   DAWSON                          TREES DOWN

1000 PM    7 N BERTRAND              NE    60 MPH TSTM GUST
05/29/00   PHELPS

The office that day

Everything else NWS Hastings, NE issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 29, 8:26 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson49 min
May 29, 9:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDDawson59 min
May 29, 9:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDBuffalo, Phelps59 min
May 29, 10:09 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDKearney, Phelps51 min
May 29, 10:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDHall45 min
May 29, 10:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDGreeley, Howard, Merrick, Nance54 min
May 29, 10:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDAdams, Hamilton57 min
May 29, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDClay, York58 min
May 29, 10:47 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDPolk58 min
May 29, 11:05 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningGIDFillmore, Nuckolls, Thayer55 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nebraska, 2000Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2000

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.